In 2018 we posted about the overwhelming majority of Oscar-nominated films (86%) which featured tobacco usage. Unfortunately, this year wasn’t much better. Just under 80% of films competing featured tobacco imagery, but whereas the average nominated film in 2018 featured 69 tobacco incidents per film, the 2019 nominations averaged a staggering […]
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Big Tobacco successfully wrangled over 1 million new underage tobacco users with e-cigarettes in 2018
The results are in from the 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey. For years we’ve seen a decrease in youth tobacco usage, but 27.1% of high school students reported current use of at least one tobacco product – the highest percentage since 2004. The number of reported underage users of any […]